If it was to be parted with, I wish one of us had it.

I hope you wish so too, and that Mrs.Blount and Mrs.Howard wish the same, and for the very same reason that I wish it."[4] THE HON.MRS.HOWARD TO JOHN GAY.
Hampton Court, August [1728].
"I am glad you have passed your time so agreeable.

I need not tell you how mine has been employed; but as I know you wish me well, I am sure you will be glad to hear that I am much better; whether I owe it to the operation I underwent, or to my medicines, I cannot tell; but I begin to think I shall entirely get the better of my illness.

I have written to Dr.Arbuthnot, both to give him a particular account, and to ask his opinion about the Bath.

I know him so well that, though in this last illness he was not my physician, he is so much my friend, that he is glad I am better.